alpha/beta software in Fedora 8?
Adam Tkac
atkac at redhat.com
Tue Nov 27 16:27:19 UTC 2007
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 11:03:02AM -0500, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 04:25:35PM +0100, Adam Tkac wrote:
> > I've put this software to F8 because it has nice new features. Some
> > bugs is tax for them. Additionally I don't think that users use newest
> > Fedora on important servers and 9.5 will come into beta stage very
> > soon.
>
> I use the newest Fedora on important servers. They were running FC6
> before, and the EOL is approaching soon. I'd rather upgrade once to
> F8 now rather than F7 now and then again to F8 when F9 is released. I
> guess that was a bad decision on my part, but I've never had major
> problems on servers with the latest Fedora before. I've been testing
> F8 as Rawhide for a while now, so I thought it was ready for my
> servers. Unfortunately, I didn't test BIND--slap my wrist for that
> one. Of course, who knows if I would have encountered this problem in
> a test server--it may be related to the load one puts on the server
> that would never have been seen in a test environment.
I'm using 9.5 on my machine long time and I didn't found discussed
problem (#400461)
> I don't mind beta software and release candidates of software in a
> stable Fedora release--heck lots of software stays in that phase for a
> long long time (ISC dhcpd for example). But alpha software I think is
> pushing it a bit too far. This is just my opinion, and I will work
> around whatever problems I cause for myself by using the latest Fedora
> on my important servers, but the lack of a policy on this makes it
> hard for sysadmins to choose correctly. Now it seems that the choice
> should be "always run the previous Fedora release because the newest
> one might introduce new software that is considered alpha quality by
> upstream".
As I wrote above BIND will come to beta very soon. And your bug is
first more important issue that I've got reported since F8 final.
>
> It is a fine line to walk on stability vs. new features. Fedora is
> about being on the leading edge, sure. But bleeding edge should be
> reserved for Rawhide and Test releases. Especially for software as
> important as BIND and DHCP.
>
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